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by omaranto 12y ago
> Well, and the complex numbers, they're the only algebraically closed field. That is very, very far from being true! There are algebraically closed fields of every characteristic and of arbitrarily large cardinality. What did you m
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Dale – A GC-less S-expression system programming language(github.com)
123 points by omaranto 12y ago|33 comments
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by omaranto 12y ago
The space of invertible matrices of a given size is not a compact connected Riemannian manifold, so besides the problem of non-uniqueness you probably don't have existence of geodesics for every pair of points. You can't connect a
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by omaranto 12y ago
How does linear algebra answer leni536's question about how to handle transitions between two linear transformations? I take it that question is roughly: given two matrices A and B, guess which continuous path M(t) of matrices with M(0
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by omaranto 12y ago
My default search engine is Google and for the last couple of weeks I've seen that box several times. It hasn't bothered me enough yet to try figure out what is going wrong, but it does feel pretty silly.
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by omaranto 12y ago
If by "the idea still came across", you mean I was able to guess approximately what the OP meant, you're right. I was curious about exactly what he or she meant and that's why I asked. And I wasn't playing dumb.
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by omaranto 12y ago
This I understand, but that sentence with "cliché" in it I still don't get.
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by omaranto 12y ago
Also, don't most news sites with subscriptions still show adds to subscribers?
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by omaranto 12y ago
> I realise that in those situations I just have to click fast twice, so that the second click takes place before scripts have been loaded. Oh, that's why rapid clicking works! Funny how for some problems I only want a solution an
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by omaranto 12y ago
The sentence in question is: "The author spends a lot of effort trying to make his functions point-free." You can simply remove the word "his".
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by omaranto 12y ago
I'm unfamiliar with it: what is the cliché about multiplication vs exponentiation?
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by omaranto 12y ago
That's weird, isn't it? You wanted to know how to use a feature of bash and didn't check the manual?
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by omaranto 12y ago
Also KeySnail for Firefox: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki It calls itself Emacs-like, but true to Emacs form, one of the default configurations gives Vim-like bindings instead of Emacs ones.
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by omaranto 12y ago
Firefox has let you assign keywords to search engines for a long time, I think possibly before Chrome even existed. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
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by omaranto 12y ago
That's probably because there is no --release flag: $ rustc --release prog.rs error: Unrecognized option: 'release'. There is a -O for optimization, it is equivalent to -C opt-level=2. EDIT: Oh, cargo build does
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by omaranto 12y ago
Is SageMathCloud really based on the IPython notebook? I had assumed it was based instead on the earlier Sage Notebook.
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by omaranto 12y ago
There are stupid people everywhere, not just the USA. There are also anti-vaccination movements in lots of places, not just the USA. There is a big one in Spain, for example.
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by omaranto 12y ago
> I'm sorry, but that API is not something to be proud of. I agree: not only does using it require a lot of boilerplate, but Option takes several arguments and returns a value that only restores the previous value of the last opti
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by omaranto 12y ago
Well, I had an old Sony PR-505 eReader and while it could read PDF's it ccertainly wasn't ideally suited to it. I did usually preprocess them by at least cropping the margins as much as I could (a program called briss makes this e
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Sodium: Pascal to idiomatic Haskell translator(int-index.github.io)
2 points by omaranto 12y ago|1 comments
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by omaranto 12y ago
Maybe people overlook the differences because few people actually do both kinds of reading?
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by omaranto 12y ago
Have you tried an e-ink screen?
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by omaranto 12y ago
I guess performance might still be a reason to prefer Common Lisp to Clojure.
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by omaranto 12y ago
Aren't developers the end-users of GUI frameworks?
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by omaranto 12y ago
Those are good points about string processing (and I wasn't aware of them, thanks!), but when I said Nim programs typically run a little faster I didn't mean only text munging, also my Project Euler type code: lots of loops, array
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by omaranto 12y ago
LLVM's optimization passes are pretty awesome, but so are GCC's. My guess is that both methods can get you good performance, and that what performance you do get depends on how good the LLVM bitcode or C you generate is. I've
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by omaranto 12y ago
Chronologically it's the other way around I think: Vimium was inspired by the Firefox plugins Vimperator and Pentadactyl. (The one I mentioned, VimFx, is more recent and more minimalistic that either Vimperator or Pentadactyl.)
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by omaranto 12y ago
Well, as one piece of anecdotal evidence: I only use one browser extension (Vimium on Chrome, VimFx on Firefox) and still find Firefox significantly faster than Chrome. Also, I like using the same browser on my Android tablet as on my lapto
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by omaranto 12y ago
That's a funny use of the word "mere"!
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by omaranto 12y ago
I don't think old APL's had first class functions.

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